Multi-Cultural Awareness

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Help Break down cultural barriers. Extend your "people skills", as a counsellor, manager, business owner, etc Work in a "helping profession" - welfare, immigration, international relations, etc

Cultural diversity refers to the differences between human communities based on differences in their ideologies, values, beliefs, norms, customs, meanings and ways of life – in other words, differences based on cultural differences. These differences are expressed and exemplified in social practices, attitudes and values, family interactions and expectations, values concerning education, ways of defining and treating health (physical and mental), business and management behaviours and practices, political practices and our interpersonal relations. This course will develop your sensitivity to culture, diversity and multicultural societies, and improve your capacity to interact with people on multicultural issues.None

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Location

Flexible

Distance Learning

What you'll learn on the course

Mental Health

Discrimination

Cultural Awareness

Cultural Diversity

Communication Training

Skills and Training

Course programme

She has been a clinician and manager of health services for fifteen years, and a trainer for UK-based medical charities, focusing on psychosocial issues, mental health disorders, and also the promotion of communication skills for people in helping roles. As a freelance writer, she contributes articles for magazines, has written four published books, and has written course material on coaching and counselling related fields.

Successful completion of this course/module will develop your understanding of appropriate practices and procedures within Multicultural Awareness.

Understand multi-cultural issues and terminology. Develop your sensitivity to culture, diversity and multicultural societies, and improve your capacity to interact with people on multicultural issues.

Develop an awareness and appreciation of cultural diversity;
Understand the cultural awareness of the self through verbal and non-verbal means;
Understand the origins and influences of prejudice and racism;
Understand the impact of culture when working with culturally different clients;
Understand bias toward and barriers against effective multi-cultural relationships;
Understand the fundamentals of developing and implementing cultural competence;
Understand multi-cultural attitudes toward mental health issues.
Practicals:

Learn what is meant by the term culture, and different cultural groups;
Discuss cultural diversity and identify problems associated with it;
Discuss intra-cultural and inter-cultural contact to managing cultural diversity;
Identify reasons that people and groups make intercultural contact;
Explore how we communicate non-verbally;
Identify ways (verbal and non-verbal) that we communicate our identification to a cultural group;
In what ways a minority culture influence a dominant culture;
Ways that people and groups adapt to other cultures;
Explain the term individualism-collectivism
Define;
ethnocentrism
prejudice
racism
stereotype
discrimination
Discuss how prejudice and/or racism help a group or person feel more comfortable about other cultures;
Explore the role of stereotyping by a dominant culture in perceived discrimination by an immigrant community;
Define culture shock;
Identify barriers to communication that exist in intercultural communication situations;
Identify strategies to ensure effective communication with a person from another culture;
Explore the influence of culture differences when providing helping or counselling services to clients;
Explore ways that people from different cultures deal with psychological or communication problems such as conflict, depression, mental health etc.